Re: MFM or GCR...

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>]

Matthew Russotto wrote:

>>Apple stored 3 bits for 2 in the beginning (13 sector disks) 
> 
> 
> Nit: 8 bits for 5.

Of course, sorry. I believe the drive Hardware wants to get whole bytes
from the computer which are then serialized in hardware, right? So 3
bits wouldn't make too much sense in the Apple method of dealing with
one byte at a time.

I think Commodore drives convert 4 bytes at once (to 5 bytes) so they
can store it a bit tighter. Maybe they even convert a whole block before
starting the writing process.

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Linards Ticmanis

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